New Supreme Court cookbook dishes up history, recipes
Posted December 18, 2017 6:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - Visitors to the Supreme Court's gift shop have asked for years: Where is the court's cookbook?
Now, the shop has an answer. It's called "Table for 9: Supreme Court Food Traditions & Recipes." The book out this month is part history book, part cookbook. It includes more than three dozen recipes associated with justices and their families.
Food is a way the court's nine justices connect. There are welcome dinners for new justices and retirement dinners for those who are departing. The justices regularly eat lunch together and celebrate birthdays together.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writes in the book's introduction: "Food in good company has sustained Supreme Court Justices through the ages."
Clare Cushman, director of publications at the Supreme Court Historical Society, the author of the new book, "Table for 9," that describes the food traditions of the Supreme Court â from eating behind the bench during the 1800s while arguments went on, to birthday singing instituted by Chief Justice Warren Burger and meals for new and retiring justices, poses for a photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Clare Cushman, director of publications at the Supreme Court Historical Society, the author of the new book, "Table for 9," that describes the food traditions of the Supreme Court â from eating behind the bench during the 1800s while arguments went on, to birthday singing instituted by Chief Justice Warren Burger and meals for new and retiring justices, poses for a photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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